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Retired BOINC Projects => MERSENNE@HOME => Topic started by: Dingo on August 26, 2011, 12:34:45 PM

Title: Project Overview
Post by: Dingo on August 26, 2011, 12:34:45 PM
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Project Summary

Mersenne@home is a Polish science project in the field of Mathematics, Number Theory, which, thanks to BOINC platform, uses Internet-connected computers to search for Mersenne primes. Mersenne primes are a numbers of the form 2p-1 and, in the current stage of research, counts millions of digits. Therefore, high computing power is needed to verify their primality.

Applications

Linux running on an AMD x86_64 or Intel EM64T CPU (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)    
Linux running on an Intel i686-compatible CPU (i686-pc-linux-gnu)
Microsoft Windows (98 or later) running on an Intel i686-compatible CPU (windows_intelx86)
Microsoft Windows running on an AMD x86_64 or Intel EM64T CPU    
FreeBSD running on an AMD x86_64 or Intel EM64T CPU (x86_64-pc-freebsd)
FreeBSD running on an Intel i686-compatible CPU (i386-pc-freebsd)

Connecting to Project

The projects Home Page and URL for joining the project is:http://mersenneathome.net/

Statistics

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